Originally Posted by
cfischer
UA LT status has the benefit of gifting status to someone else, but otherwise I don’t see a huge difference anymore. Sure, DL Gold is not what it used to be, but the same can perhaps be said for UA Gold as well
A second lifetime status is a pretty big benefit, since otherwise that would require flying one or more million miles for the other person.
Also Delta gives 360 status at five million versus "only" four million for GS